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Chris Davis
Chris has been involved in farming and land use in some way or the other for most of his adult life, and takes a keen interest (professionally and personally) in the quality of our soil and water resources. He is currently working with The Ohio State University School of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences in edge of field monitoring for their test plots in Defiance and Allen County. He is director of Lower 48 Instruments, an instrumentation and control firm focused on water and wastewater monitoring and a product developer for Thel-Mar LLC (a company that manufactures products for the water measuring market) and has had a career that has spanned from water resources to aerospace to finance and back to water again. Chris and his wife Katy live on the family farm he grew up at and are both involved in the keeping of their pitbull and butterfly gardens. |
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Daniel Koopmans
Dan Koopmans of Pleasant Plain Ohio is currently a Warren County SWCD board member and serving as board chair at the moment. He is in his ninth year of service on the board. Dan grew up on a southern Wisconsin dairy farm. In 1995, Dan had the opportunity to move to Ohio to help manage the Mohrfield Farms award winning dairy herd. The herd became well known world wide for it’s exceptional Holstein herd which was home to several national show winning animals. Dan has served on The Ohio Holstein Association board of directors as well as the National Holstein Association show committee. No longer in the dairy business, Dan, along with his wife, Vonda and their son Alex still run and now own Mohrfield Farms. They currently farm about 1350 acres consisting of corn, soybeans, wheat and hay. Dan believes in the mission of our soil and water districts, as protecting these essential resources are vital to the well being and sustainability of our great country. |
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John Tkatschenko
John joined the Warren County SWCD board of supervisors in 2015. John was born in Heidenau, Germany 40 miles south of Hamburg and saw the Statue of Liberty in December 1950. After an introduction to the plains of South Dakota on a beef ranch his family moved to Salem, Ohio where they lived on a 60 acre general agriculture farm. John earned a B.A. from O.S.U. in Russian, and then served in the U.S. Army as battalion clerk. He returned to O.S.U. to earn an M.S. in Soil Classification and Land Use. He then began to work as a Soil Conservationist in Seneca and Huron Counties. In March 1981 he became the District Conservationist for Warren County and served until 2008. During these 27 years he and the office staff: - Rated 60,000 acres of cropland for the 1985 Food Security Program. - Administered Ohio’s largest fly-on cover crop program of 3,500 acres. - Surveyed, designed, and applied hundreds of waterways, ponds, structures, WASCOBS, and many other conservation practices. - Met the majority of Warren County’s farm owners and operators. John currently resides on a 10 acre farmette with his wife Patty, 3 cows, a handful of chickens, 20+ fruit trees, and a bramble fruit. He has found it to be a pleasure working with Warren County’s best- its farmers. |
